"Goverment is best which governs least"

When Thoreau said "a goverment is best which governs least" I think he meant that a goverment that wasnt so part of the peoples life would govern the best for the people.For instance there are some goverments that are completly involved in its peoples everyday life ,and living style ,and there is some goverments that gives freedom where freedom is needed( to an lovely extent America home of the free).I think that if a goverment is to involved in the peoples life ,I mean down to the core of their being, then that is not a good thing to have.People deserve freedom and privacy. A goverment that is involved but not to a nosey piont is actaully for the people and if the goverment governs less then the people are more of the goverment in the goverment.people are the goverment is what im trying to say. Thats how i see it at least . Basically what im trying to get at is that a goveremnt that that doesnt show  its all for the politics and more for the people are usually a more succeessfull goverment.People tend to like the govermnet with freedom more.